I love to travel…minus the hassle to get through the airport and the anxiety of sitting on a plane for ungodly hours. All of the hustle and bustle is worth it once you get to your destination and take in new sights, tastes and sounds. If I were a trust fund baby, I’d travel all the time. Better yet, if I could teleport, help us all. Anyway, I was featured by Parlour Magazine, other ladies who have a case of wanderlust and they blog about it often. The Parlour feature is called “Travel Seven,” and it’s seven quick facts from people about favorite places they’ve been, essentials they need when traveling and all that good stuff. I chose Japan as my favorite place. You can see the video evidence of those shenanigans across Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and KyotoÂ here but make sure to hit up that Parlour feature by clickingÂ here.

In other news, speaking of travel, I did well for myself this year. I got invited on a trip to Tobago to cover Tobago Fashion Weekend (for Black Enterprise), which I will post some pics of eventually, and then I went to Japan for my honeymoon as a wedding present, and got to cross that off my bucket list; and soon…very soon, I will be attending the third annual Food Wine and Rum Festival in Barbados with two of my girlfriends. Attending a food festival internationally is another bucket list item I get to cross off.

I’m super late but come out tonight if you can, I’ll be moderating a talk back following the play. See below for info: New York, NY- Homage 3:Â IllmaticÂ tells the coming-to-being story of an artist who must evolve or disappear. A tribute to the rapper NaSâ€™Â ILLMATIC, Homage 3:Â IllmaticÂ comes out the spirit of the classic album and […]

I told myself that I would write every day, even when I didn’t want to…even if it was a sentence. It’s rainy and retrogradey and sucky outside. But such is life. Despite the gray, be inspired and still choose a happy day. *Taking my own advice*

Starrene Rhett Rocque is a New York City-based entertainment and lifestyle journalist and author who enjoys telling the stories of people who are hiding in plain sight. Her award-winning website, GangStarrGirl.com, focuses on women in hip-hop, pop-culture, beauty, travel and other lifestyle interests like pole dancing. Most people discover that upon reading her quirky musings […]
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